NSW GOVEA'IP..,, ENT Department ol Planning State Heritage Register Nomination Form , Heritage Council ii!IJii~ of New Soull1W a'es

Important notes for nominators

R~~~i~~ct.by ...... Before completing this When completing this form note that: form, read the Guideline · ~ Q.,V {I VI 'Th< W'- r ~O"" for Nominations to the • It must be completed and submitted electronic ally .~...... State Herit~ge Register • to check whether a • Follow the guideline• to fill out the form accur teTYflte: DS IO "\ W Uo nomination is • jYELLOW sections! of this form are mandatory o ~~o'ffilXSfhtfla'fiOJnl is h ~ ~ Y appropriate. to be accepted for consideration. ·-·-·· --·--··-· ....·- - ·-

You should only • jBLUE s·ectionsl of this form are rec·ommended, but are not essential, nominate an item you unless otherwise Indicated In the form. believe to be particularly important In the context • The completed form must show how the nominated place Is state t of all of NSW, beyond significant to meet the criteria for listing on the register. the local area or region. ! • Incomplete nominations, or those with Insufficient Information, may not be accepted. This is because only items of state heritage • A complete and accurate nomination form, with a clear assessment significance are eligible of state significance of the place or object, will assist In the timely for listing on the State consideration of your nomination. Heritage Register. • Download this form and guideline at: www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/nominating

A. Nominated place

1. Name

Name of place I object: U ltimo Power Hou se Other or former name(s): Ultimo ; Powerhouse Museum

2. Location

Street address' : 500 (no.) Harris Street (street name) U ltimo (suburb I town) Alternate street address; (no.) (street name) _(suburb I town) Local government area: City C ouncil Land parcel(s)*: 1 (Lot nols) (section no.) 631345 (DP no.) (Lot nols) (section no.) (DP no.) (Lot nols) (section no.) (DP no.) Co-ordinates•: (Latitude) (Longitude) (Datum)

*At least one of these three location details must be provided. For a movable object, enter its principal location. If the place has no street number, provide land parcels. If it has no land parcels, provide Co-ordinates and a map.

3. Extent of nomination

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4. Ownership

Name of owner(s): NSW Govemment - Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Contact person: ? ' Contact position: Director Postal address: 500 Harris Street {street address or postal box) Ultimo {suburb or town) NSW {slate) I 2000 {post code) Phone number: +61 (02) 92 17 0111 Administered by the MAAS Trust and the NSW Minister for the Ownership explanation: Arts

B. Significance

5. Why is it important in NSW?

Statement of state The former Ultimo Power House is of State significance historically significance: for being the first large state-owned generating station in NSW and the original generating station for the supply of electricity to power the electric tramway network tlu·oughout Sydney. It was one of the largest and most important generating stations in NSW for many years and has associations with the electrification of the suburban tramway and railway systems and with the general reticulation of electrical power in Sydney. It was the site where most major

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technological advancements in electrical generation, including steam turbines and large-scale, altemating-current generation, were trialled by NSW electricity authorities. The station also played a major part in the development of the Ultimo/Pyrmont area.

The power station buildings are a landmark group of buildings which relate closely to the visual and architectural industrial context of the area. The Boilerhouse building was, in its day, one of the largest brickwork structures in the state and the chimneys were significant Sydney landmarks for seventy years. Furthe1more, the adaptive work undertaken for the station's conversion to the Powerhouse Museum is significant both for its successful re-use of the buildings and successful integration of old and new buildings; the new building was awarded the Sulman Medal by the RAJA in 1988.

The Ultimo Power House was adapted to house the Museum of Applied Arts and Technology (later, the Powerhouse Museum), the principal museum of technology, manufacturing, science and craft in NSW and retains the historical, aesthetic and cultural associations of this Museum dating back to the International Exhibition in the late nineteenth century. It is an ongoing repository for the exhibition of the finest examples of the skill and industry of the countty and has an educational and research role in these areas as part of its operation.

In this context, it has social significance for many Sydneysiders for whom the Powerhouse Museum represents an impottant educational and cultmal experience and a coll1ltlunal commitment to honouring the past and those who have been significant in the evolution of modem Australian society. Comparisons: ; Balmain Power Station (demolished); Bunnerong Power Station (demolished).

C. Description

6. Existing place or object

Description: The remains of the Ultimo Power House are four intercormected buildings which were the Engine-house and Turbine Hall, the (2nd) Boilerhouse, the Office Building m1d the Switchhouse. All equipment from the power station phase has been removed from the interiors and exteriors of the buildings and the buildings survive as extemal shells, adapted to the new use as a Museum.

OFFICE BUILDING The office building is a tlU'ee storey symmetrical building, 30m wide

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and 14m deep, with sevei1 bays, built in a simplified Italian Renaissance Classical style. It faces William Henry Street and is pattly obscured by the William Henry Street Bridge. The rusticated stone base supports a stone plinth on which sits the brick superstructure. The articulation continues in the form of brick pilasters with a sandstone entablature, above which is a brick parapet. On the ground floor, window mullions are in the fotm of classical pilasters, while on the top floor they are plain. Beneath each window is a spandrel infilled with bricks in herringbone pattern. The frontispiece is in the form of an aedicule two stories high, with large-scale stone pilasters on stone pedestals, surmounted by a pediment. Within the frontispiece is an entrance having semicircular arch with a console keystone. The principal featme in the aedicule is the spandrel which identifies the building's ownership as the New South Wales Govenunent Transport Depattment (NSWGTD). Surrounding the name of the building is a band of lightning bolts, a stylised representation of electricity, which passes behind a decorated floriated crest incorporating the Southem Cross. The spandrel was once smmounted by a leadlight window which bore the State Coat of Arms.

On the top floor, each pair ofpilasters, on the east and west ends, is gathered over a semi-circular opening which makes the semi-circular arched windows appear recessed. The building has a distinguished architectural composition shown in brickwork, windows and facades. The bricks are very fine plastic-moulded and have a warm red-brown colour and pointed with a light red-brown mortar. The work tlu·oughout is English bond except in the spandrels where it is heningboned. The robust cedar window joinery is very fine and is consistent with the time of building. The repetition of the pilasters, spandrels and windows on the north, east, and west facades adds to the carefl.ll ornamentation of the building.

All that remains of the old boiler house on the eastern side of the Office Building is the remains of the fust chinmey stack and the flashing outline of the gable roof in the brickwork of the second boilerhouse.

THE ENGINE ROOM AND TURBINE HALL Contemporaneous with the office building but different in concept and design is the engine room. It is approximately 30m wide and 30m deep and is, in effect, an extension of the office building. The bricks, still laid in English hond, are brown-grey and the character of the building is much more utilitarian. The pilasters are strengthening devices and divide the west front (the building's only facade) into five bays with paired windows. The openings of the metal framed windows are segmental-arched and each brick sill runs the length of the window only and not the length of the bay, as on the office building. The facade is completed by a parapet which conceals the box guttering. Beneath the parapet is a double stringcourse of brickwork.

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The Turbine Hall, an extension eastwards of the Engine Room, is a very simple, very strong expression of the utilitarian architecture of the early 20th century and one of the prime large examples of Edwardian industrial architecture in Sydney. Its size, 56m x 31m, reflects the size of the turbo alternators it was designed to house. The facade is divided into eight bays, which are further proportioned by a horizontal band which divides the facade into sixteen elements. The west facade's principal quality is its sheer scale which is enhanced by very carefully controlled simplicity. Emphasising the main ruticulation of the facade is a moulded stone stringcourse at the sill level of the upper windows and a moulded stone cornice capping the top of the parapet.

The main elements are the very tall, semi-circular headed windows. These main windows have stone sills and the window bays, flanked by pilasters, terminate in stepped brick corbels and are surmounted by a stone gable cornice.

THE SWITCH HOUSE The switch house is a brick building, tlu·ee stories on the east and two stories above ground level on the west. The west facade is divided into seven bays, the northernmost of which is given emphasis by means of a dentillated gable which incorporates a centrally-placed circular motif with herringbone infill. The remainder of the building features a dentillated segmented extension of t11e parapet. The brickwork between each pair of windows extends even higher and terminates in dentillated bracketed caps. All dressings, sills, lintels and caps are of rendered concrete.

THE SECOND BOILER HOUSE The second boiler house is the largest building in the complex, 83m long and 23m wide, and has the largest continuous facade to the east. The three tiers of windows, arranged in thitteen bays, are a vigorous architectural solution to the problem of dealing with a very tall facade. The height from string course to plinth is much greater than on the west facade of the tmbine hall, which it complements.

The thirteen bays are evident on the top tier of the building, above the string course. Below that, the fourth and fifth bays from the north end were combined to form a h'ipmtite entrance bay, which allowed access to rail trucks on the east siding. The south facade of the boiler house, although abutting the turbine hall and matching it in size, was treated somewhat differently, preserving the individuality of the building. The pilasters, their terminations in stepped corbels and the gable comices are the same but the windows are smaller, arranged in two tiers and segmental-headed, as on the east facade.

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Condition of fabric Good Condition and/or archaeological potential:

Integrity I intactness: Adapted to house the Powerhouse Museum, the building envelopes are largely intact but the contents have been removed.

Modifications Dates: NlUnerous modifications between1899 and 1988. See History

Date you Inspected 2015 the place for this description: Current use*: Powerhouse Museum Original or former Electricity Generating Station use(s)•: Further comments:

Illustrations can be inserted as images in section J.

• These details must be entered if you are basing the significance of the place or object on its past or present use.

E>. Historical outline

7. Origins and historical evolution

Years of construction•: 1897 (start year) 11899 (finish year) Designer I architect*: NSW Railway Commissioners I NSW Department of Public Works Maker/ builder: J. Stewa1t & Co. Sydney Historical outline of The development of the tramway public transport system had its place or object: beginnings in a horse drawn tramway along Pitt Street between Circular Quay and the Redfern Railway Terminal, which opened in 1869. A steam powered network developed from the 1870s, first rmming through the city only, then rapidly expanding as a commuter service from suburban areas. Steep topography saw the addition of cable drawn h·ams in North Sydney and towards Rose Bay from the city during the 1880s. In 1893, the first complete electrically-powered tramway line opened on the north shore and its success led to the decision to adopt electric power for the tramway system overall. A single large elech·icity generating station was deemed necessary to provide this power and the fn·st stage of the Ultimo Power Station opened in December, 1899.

The first of the all-electric tramcar sheds, Ultimo Tram Depot, opened at the same time at the south end of the Power Station site (and has been separately nominated). Conversion of the tramlines proceeded rapidly and expansion of the power station followed in stages.

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In 1905, Ultimo Power House was the first place where turbine-driven alternators were tried in Australia and it was, until the 1940s, the location where the first examples of most major developments in power generation technology, including mechanical boiler feed and, later, the use of pulverised , were tried in Australia. It was also amongst the largest of any generating stations operating in Australia till the 1940s. It was a major employer and its function of power generation brought further development to the su1Tom1ding area. At the same time, its landmark chimneys were the source of ash fallout problems for local people.

In the 1920s, electrification of the suburban railway led to substantial extension and re-equipping of Ultimo Power House and the White Bay Power Station also commenced operations as the second ofthe New South Wales (NSW) Railway and Tramways Depmtment generating stations. These two worked closely together until the 1950s, when all the power generation facilities ofthe state were brought together under the NSW Electricity Commission, a central government authority formed to deal with the chronic post-war power shortages in NSW. As the interconnected network expanded and new generation power stations were completed and brought on line, Ultimo's old machinery and city location saw its progressive redundancy and it closed in 1964. Allied to this was the closure of the tramway system, in favour of motor busses, which was underway from the 1950s and was complete by 1963. The power station was then stripped and lay dormant until the decision in 1979 to use it as the new location for the Musemn of Applied Alis and Sciences (formerly the Technological Museum).

The Power Station was substantially modified for its use as the Powerhouse Museum . The interior of the buildings were cleared, new internal floors and spaces created and new buildings were erected on the western side. The Ultimo tram depot, adjacent to the power station, opened as Stage One in 1981; this later became offices, workshops, laboratories and storage for the Museum in the Powerhouse buildings. The Powerhouse Museum proper opened to the public in March 1988, as the flagship exhibition space of the Museum of Applied Atts and Sciences (MAAS).

• These details must be entered (as shown in the guideline) If you are basing the significance of the place or object on Its architectural or technical qualities or·it s historical period of construction.

Historical maps, photographs or other illustrations that help to explain the history of the place can be inserted in section J.

8. Historical themes represented

National theme(s): 3. Developing local, regional, national economies 4. Building settlements, towns and cities Select one or more of 1-9. 5. Working 8. Developing Australia's cultural life

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New line for each selected. State theme(s): Within National themes 1-3: 3. Industry Select one or more for 3. Transport each above selected National theme 1·9. 3. Transport

New line for each selected. Within National themes 4-9: 4. Towns, suburbs and villages 4. Utilities 7. Government and administration

E. Criteria

9. Assessment under Heritage Council criteria of state significance

A. It is important In It meets this criterion of State significance because it was the first large the course or pattern of the cultural or state-owned electricity generating station in NSW and the original natural history of generating station for the supply of electricity to power the electric NSW. tramway network throughout Sydney.

It was one of the largest and most important generating stations in NSW for many years and has associations with the electrification of the suburban tramway and railway systems and with the general reticulation of electrical power in Sydney.

It was the site where most major technological advancements in electrical generation, including steam turbines and large-scale, altemating-current generation, were trialled by NSW electricity authorities.

The station also played a major part in the development of the Ultimo/Pyrmont area.

The Ultimo Power House was adapted to house the Musemn of Applied Alts and Teclmology (later, the Powerhouse Museum), the principal museum of technology, manufacturing, science and craft in NSW and retains the historical, aesthetic and cultural associations of tllis Museum dating back to the Intemational Exhibition in the late nineteenth century. It is an ongoing repository for the exhibition of the finest examples of the skill and indusby of the country and has an educational and research role in these areas as pmt of its operation

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B. It has a strong or ... special association with the life or works of a person, or group It meets this criterion of State significance because the Ultimo Power of persons of House is associated with the Museum of Applied Arts and Technology Importance In the (later, the Powerhouse Museum), the principal museum of technology, cultural or natural manufacturing, science and craft in NSW and retains the historical, history of NSW. aesthetic and cultural associations of this Museum dating back to the International Exhibition in the late nineteenth century. C. It is importa nt In ·demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or It meets this criterion of State significance because the power station a high degree of buildings are a landmark group of buildings which relate closely to the creative or technical visual and architectural industrial context of the area. The Boilerhouse achievement In NSW. building was, in its day, one of the largest brickwork structures in the state and the chinmeys were significant Sydney landmarks for seventy years.

Fm1hermore, the adaptive work undertaken for the station's conversion to the Powerhouse Museum is significant both for its successful re-use of the buildings and successful integration of old and new buildings; the new building was awarded the S1.tlman Medal by the RATA in 1988.

D. It has strong or It meets this criterion of State significance because the Ultimo Power special association with a particular House was adapted to house the Museum of Applied Alis· and community or cultural Technology (later, the Powerhouse Musemn) and it retains the group In NSW for historical, aesthetic and cultural associations of this Museum dating social, cultural or spiritual reasons. back to the International Exhibition in the late nineteenth century. In this context, it has social significa11ce for many Sydneysiders for whom the Powerhouse Museum represents an important educational and cultural experience and a communal commitment to honouring the past and those who have been significant in the evolution of modem Australian society .It does not appear to meet this criterion of State significance.

E. It has potential to yield Information that will contribute to an It does not appear to meet this criterion of State significance. understanding of the cultural or na~u ral history of NSW. F. It possesses It meets this criterion of State significance because the Ultimo Power uncommon, rare or endangered aspects House and the White Bay Power Station are the only major survivors of the cultural or of the city-based electrical generating stations of the early twentieth natural history of century. They separately and together are significant relics of the early NSW. development of in NSW and are important physical evidence of the scale and importance ofthis industry.

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G. It Is important in It meets this criterion of State significance because, in its size, layout and demonstrating the principal surviving physical features, it is representative of large s t ate~owned characteristics of a electricity generating stations from the earl y twentieth century in class of cultural or NSW and elsewhere in Australia. natural places/ environments in NSW. The conversion of the Power Station into a cultural institution is itself repi·esentative of a change of use for redundant power stations which is typical of these structures world~wide .

F. Listings

10. Existing heritage listings

Check one box for each of the following listings: Listed Not listed >< Local environmental plan (L.:EP) • heritage Item (call the local council to confirm) >< Regional environmental plan (REP) ~ heritage Item (call the local council to confirm) LEP • Conservation area (call the local council to confirm) Draft LEP • Draft heritage Item (call the local council to confirm) Draft LEP • Draft conservation area (call the local council to confirm) State Heritage Register (search the register at www , beritag e . [! §W,QQ~ . !! U) ~ D National Trust register (call the National Trust to confirm) Aboriginal heritage information management system (by Dept. of Environment & Conservation) 1 Royal Australian Institute of Architects Register of 20 h Century Architecture (call the RAIA)

National shipwreck database (search mari!ime . be r ii!!Qe . n sw, gQv , a !.!/~ubll clwelcQrn !i! .QfDJ) ~ D Engineers Australia list (call Engineers Australia to <;onflrm) [ National Heritage List (search Australian Heritage Database www. deb . gov . a u/cgl- blnla hdb[sea rcb. ~l) [ Commonwealth Heritage List (search above Australian Heritage Database) ~ D Register of the National Estate (search above Australian Heritage Database) ~ [ NSW agency heritage and conservation section 170 register (call owner or occupier Agency) Other listings:

G. Photograph

11 . Image 1

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Include additional photographs and images in section J.

If possible, please also provide a high resolution, publication-quality copy of this image saved to disk (or as non­ digital prints) with the signed hard-copy of the nomination form.

Iii. Author

12. Primary author of this form

Your name: Mr I Tony (first) I Brassil (family) Organisation: National Trust of Australia (NSW) Position: Advocacy Daytime phone number: 02 9258 0123 Fax number: ' Postal address: PO Box 518 (street address or postal box) . Sydney (suburb or town)

NSW (state) I 2000 (post code) { Email adtlress: ~brassi [email protected]. au Date form completed: 10/11/2015

13. References used for completing this form

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Repository I Year Author Title Publisher location published Report for the The Power House, 1. Glendenning L Depattment of 1982 Ultimo Public Works Ultimo Power Repmt for the Don Godden & 2. House - History Government 1984 Associates and Technology Architects Branch Ultimo Power Don Godden & House - Fom Report for the 3. 1986 Associates Building MAAS Monographs . Tramway Workshops, Report for the Godden Depots and 4. National Trust of 1994 Mackay Pty Ltd Substations - Australia (NSW) Survey and Assessment Historic Institution of Engineering The Instihttion of 5. Engineers, Marker- Engineers, 1994 Australia Nomination Australia Report 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 11 12

14. Signed by..,author

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15. Signed by copyright holder(s) of image(s)

1 &((A l-tf\j\11 tQ v J w~c Image copyright holder (sign and print name) Dated

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Signing 14 and 15 confirms the author of this form and copyright holder(s) of images give permission for the Heritage Branch to use non-confidential information and images entered in this form for any purpose related to processing the nomination. Possible uses include (but are not limited to) publication on the Heritage Branch website, newsletter, reports or other publications. The author of the form, image copyright holder(s) and photographer(s) will be acknowledged when published.

I. Nominator

16. Nominator to be contacted by Heritage Branch

Name: Mr I Graham (first) I Quint (family) Organisation: National Trust of Australia (NSW) Position In Advocacy Director organisation: Daytime phone number: 02 9258 0123 Fax number: Postal address: GPO Box 518 (street ad.dress or postal box) Sydney (suburb or town) NSW (state) I 2000 (post code) Email address: [email protected]

Alternate contact name: Mr ITo ny (first) IBrassil (family) Position In Advocacy organisation: ' Daytime phone number: 02 9258 0123 Fax number: Postal address: GPO Box 518 Sydney NSW 2000 Email address: tbrassil~nationaltrust.com.au

17. Reasons for nomination

Background or The Ultimo Powerhouse is clearly of State significance for its role reasons for nomination: both as an electricity generating station and as the venue for the Powerhouse Museum. Recent speculation regarding its future highlighted the fact that, owing to its ownership by the State, its future had been assumed to be protected and that its statutory listing status was below its known level of significance.

18. Form signed by nominator for submitting

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CHECKLIST ~ !S[lell r.hecl< your form- do11ble elk:!

Before submitting this form, check that you have:

~ completed all yellow sections, and other sections marked as essential. ~ completed blue sections wherever possible. ~ explained why the place or object is state significant in the statement of state significance. ~ explained how one or more of the criterion has been fulfilled for listing. D inserted photographs, maps and other illustrations as digital or scanned images. ~ acknowledged all sources and references you used. D signed and dated this form. D obtained the nominator's and image copyright holders' signatures. D if possible, attached a disk (or non-digital prints) for posting select image/s of high resolution, 'suitable for publication.

TO SUBMIT THIS NOMINATION:

Post all of the following: Addressed to: 1. a signed hard-copy of the form; The Director Heritage Branch 2. an electronic copy of the completed NSW Department of Planning form saved to disk (unless you prefer to Locked Bag 5020 email it separately); and Parramatta NSW 2124 3. other attachments, such as high- resolution copies of photographs If an electronic copy of the form Is suitable for publication. not posted, email It instead to: [email protected]

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J. Additional photographs, maps or other images

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The interior of Ultimo power station photographed in 1905 showing the four horizontal steam engine generator sets in the Engine Hall . In the background is the rear of the A.C. Switch on the mezzanine.

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